Re-figuring the South African Empire: International Conference in Basel
9-11 September 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
www.zasb.unibas.ch/empire
Department of History and Centre for African Studies, University of Basel (Switzerland), in collaboration with the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS) and the Swiss Society for History (SGG)
This conference investigates histories of imperialism, colonialism and nation-building in the Southern African region, in the context of a critical reassessment of South Africa as a state and nation. The overall aim is to understand the region's history from its margins and to shift perspectives away from the teleological narrative of the emergence and consolidation of a modern South African nation-state throughout the 20th century. The necessity and relevance of this attempt to bring into question some of the core assumptions of South African historiography is reflected in the debate about the second volume of the new Cambridge History of South Africa on the 20th century, published in 2011. This prestigious volume presents the history of South African society and its state without contextualising its regional legacies of colonialism and hegemony. It makes hardly any mention of South Africa's de facto seventy-five year-long colonial rule over Namibia. Namibia experienced colonialism for a much more extended period than many other African colonies, while South Africa acted as a colonial power much longer than, for example, Germany or Italy. Yet South Africa is rarely theorised as having been a colonial state attempting to build an empire.
The conference deepens the debate about these crucial issues and situates it in the new scholarship on empires, cultural histories of colonialism and post-colonial critique. These arguments have unsettled the simplistic notion of a centre-periphery dichotomy in relations between Europe and the wider world, and have moved the debate into transnational, entangled or shared histories of all sorts. Yet attention paid to the building of empires in the shadows of European imperialism remains scant. The Southern African example is a striking reminder of the complexities throughout the 20th century of South African regional domination amidst multiple colonialisms as well as nationalisms.
As much as our interests are directed towards a revision of some of the parameters of South African historiography, the conference will likewise explore the production of history, memory and memorialization. South African colonialism, expansion and hegemony resonate in South Africa's post-apartheid society and in the wider memory landscapes and practices of post-colonial Southern Africa. Here again the conference seeks to engage with a regional perspective, and to explore the ways in which the legacies of South Africa's imperial history continue to generate a condition of coloniality which affects the socio-political order as much as it engenders the production of knowledge in South Africa itself and throughout the entire region.
Conceptual outline
The conference does not view the South African empire as an empirical entity, let alone as a historical fact. Rather it engages with empire as a theoretical concept which unsettles some of the certainties in South African historiography and opens up productive spaces for the re-figuration of Southern African histories. We thus seek papers and presentations from and on the Southern African region and have therefore identified a number of themes, concepts and lines of inquiry with which the conference aims to engage.
Nation and Empire
New histories of empire have emerged from a critique of historiographies dominated by the category of the nation and narratives of teleological progression from empire to colony and nation-state. South African historiography has uncritically replicated the paradigm of the nation around the subjects of late 19th century British-Boer antagonism, early 20th century unification and nation-building and internal colonialism articulated through segregation and apartheid. In contrast to such self-referential historical narration, this conference seeks out papers which explore the entanglement of the emergence of a distinct idea of the South African nation with its imperialist, developmental and increasingly military outreach into its neighbouring countries such as Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
On the other hand we invite reflections on various articulations of the nation and nationalism in Southern Africa, which in one way or the other speak to the recurrence of imperialism in its metropolitan as much as regional forms.
Marxist historiographies of the 1960s and 1970s articulated strong positions on South Africa's imperialism in the region, yet their concerns seem to have fallen into oblivion. While the conference panels will link up with these discussions, their arguments will need to be tuned to more recent concerns within Southern African historiography and recent discussions in methodology and theory.
Imperial Economies
The main domain in which South African imperialism has been acknowledged in historical scholarship has been labour migration, which forced hundreds of thousands of men, and to a lesser extent, women from within South Africa itself, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Malawi into South Africa's urban centres, farming sectors and mining economies, most prominently on the Rand. These histories remain important and powerful in terms of their transnational perspective, yet the conference proposes to expand the discussion, not only to urban areas, mines and other centres of migration outside South Africa, but also beyond the dominant axes of urbanisation and mining and to consider further economies based on the trade of slaves, stock and goods, small industry, specialised skills and diverse commodities. Itinerant traders, commercial hunters, caterers or refined manufacturers as much as printers, publishers, and artisans surface here, disclosing transnational and trans-regional circuits of cloth, furniture, tools and technologies, high-priced merchandise or daily consumer goods. On another level, the large-scale operations of multinational (not only mining) companies, often based in South African metropoles, need to be conceptualised, together with issues of (economic) plunder and capital formation outside their respective areas of operation. The workings of the South African developmental state in the region, for example with regard to large-scale construction projects of dams and hydro-electric power stations, can be added here. The exploration of the complexity of such an imperial economy will enable a qualification of South Africa's hegemonic position as the centre of economic growth, industry and urbanisation, and yet complicate the directions and vectors of economic activity and practice. In particular, for this section, the conference seeks papers which address the multiple avenues and agencies of economic modernisation and transformation in the empire's hinterlands, in which migrant labourers and their return investments seem to have acted as crucial agents and brokers.
Empire Spaces
South Africa's spatial order has conventionally been explained in terms of segregation, legislation, a so-called "security complex", and changing attitudes towards nature. Indeed, the ways in which urban and rural spaces have been conceptualised, enforced and administered according to the requirements of the mining industries and the system of migrant labour, the demands of a commercial agricultural sector which maintained a privileged community of 'white' settlers, and the differences and divisions determined by segregation and apartheid throughout the 20th century, are remarkable and remain visible in the present. Papers assembled here will address a wide range of spaces, among them mining compounds, the architecture of apartheid cities, 'native townships', rural African reserves and military zones, borders and boundaries of many sorts. In contrast to conventional scholarship, these issues are to be addressed in a transnational perspective, exploring the proliferation of urban and rural design and planning, the demarcation of nature reserves and the declaration of military buffer zones from the perspective of the constitution of a South African imperial space in the sub-region.
Imperial Knowledge
One of the arenas in which South African nation-building articulated itself prominently was the realm of knowledge production. The South-Africanisation of science and of institutions associated with the production of scientific knowledge, such as universities, archives, libraries, scientific societies and museums, has long been acknowledged. In an almost emancipatory tone, the emergence of South African science has been narrated as a process through which the centres of knowledge production and expertise shifted from their metropolitan locations in Europe to the former South African colony and nation in the making. Less attention has been paid to the political economies and geopolitics of knowledge production within Southern Africa or to the significance of South Africa's hinterlands and peripheries, among them most importantly the Namibian colony, as resources and laboratories of imperial knowledge production. The conference hence invites contributions which investigate the ways in which the imperial space was constructed by economies of collecting, the operations of field sciences, the development of scientific taxonomies, the birth of scientific institutions, including museums and archives, and the development of professional scientific careers within the framework of a regional history.
Bio-politics of Empire
By the late 19th century, state institutions, metropolitan as much as colonial ones, showed growing interest in the documentation, identification and classification of their subjects. Therein the body of the citizen and/or subject emerged as the matrix around which forms and institutions of governance were enacted and specific kinds of knowledge modelled. Documentation, identification and classification of individuals and social groups in colonial Southern Africa throughout most of the 20th century was firmly grounded in essentialist notions of race and racial segregation, which hierarchically juxtaposed constructions of purified, superior forms of whiteness to the alleged degeneration of blackness and the iconic figure of the native. In as much as the organisation of society along racial lines was the raison d'être of segregation and apartheid in South Africa - and for that matter moved to the core of South African nation-building per se - racism and its underlying archives offered the idiom through which the South African state articulated and legitimised its imperialist project, pushing its frontier of white supremacy far beyond its national borders. The papers assembled here will explore how South Africa's imperial expansion complicated the problem of racial classification and difference, as much as the inconsistencies, contradictions and interstices within the expanding system of racial classification itself. Ultimately, the dynamics generated by imperial expansion and epistemological instability precisely offered the very few spaces for alternative, at times subaltern subjectivities.
Imperial Materialities, Imaginaries and Aesthetics of Empire
New histories of empire have shifted attention away from politics and economics towards 'softer' factors that made up the world of experience, the everyday, and the senses. Empires materialised, and the study of specific artefacts and objects provides a more textured sense of people's worlds and livelihoods. The conference aims at addressing experience, the everyday and the sensual through the lens of materiality and asks whether, and to what extent, specific objects and designs conveyed a sense of a social and cultural space of empire.
Papers concerned with the circulation of 'small objects', such as consumer goods, official documents, street signs, uniforms or mass produced print matters, and 'large objects', such as cars, buildings and monuments, infrastructure and public transport are invited to investigate the composition of an imperial lexicon that linked people in a shared, cultural and symbolic South African imperial space. Also important in this respect was the enactment and staging of 'the empire' through public rituals, celebrations and festivals, as such bridging the realms of the political and popular. The papers assembled here will explore these imperial imaginaries through e.g. various forms of visuality, such as photography, cartography, landscape painting, calendars, or cartoons, and they will likewise investigate diverse forms of popular culture, music, literature and art in order to elaborate on the question of the aesthetics of empire.
Abstract submission
The thematic foci presented above lay the ground for the organisation of the conference. Panels and papers will be organised accordingly. We invite participants to submit abstracts (max 1 page) and short information on authors by 4 February 2013 to afrika-tagung@unibas.ch Acceptance of abstract submissions will be notified by email by the end of March 2013. Papers need to be submitted to the conference organisers by the end of August 2013. - For all information concerning the conference see our website: www.zasb.unibas.ch/empire
Funding and Formalities:
Participants can apply for a limited amount of funding covering travel and accommodation costs. The application needs to be submitted together with the abstract submission. We privilege applicants from African countries and colleagues without permanent positions. To qualify for funding a paper has to be submitted by the given date. - Switzerland is part of the EU Schengen Visa agreement. It is the responsibility of the participants to clarify visa arrangements. Kindly approach the conference organisers for the necessary documentation required.
Publication
The organisers plan to publish the conference proceedings, and different options are being considered. A selection of the papers will be included in a special issue on the South African empire of the Journal of Southern African Studies in 2015.
Contact
For further information please contact the organisers: Lorena Rizzo: lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch Giorgio Miescher: Giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch; Dag Henrichsen: dh@baslerafrika.ch
This conference is organised on behalf of the South African Empire Research Group. Members of the group are Martha Akawa (University of Namibia), Dag Henrichsen (Basler Afrika Bibliographien & University of Basel), Luregn Lenggenhager (University of Zürich), Giorgio Miescher (University of Basel & University of the Western Cape), Ciraj Rassool (University of the Western Cape), Lorena Rizzo (University of Basel & University of the Western Cape), Jeremy Silvester (Museums Association of Namibia), Anna Vögeli (Basler Afrika Bibliographien & University of Basel), Marion Wallace (British Library).
The Research Group was supported by the Swiss South African Joint Research Project (SSJRP, University of Basel).
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Monday, 21 January 2013
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Winter update from the Ruth First Papers Project
The project team working on the Ruth First papers digitisation project recently sent out an update as the project enters the winter term and resumes digitisation after a summer hiatus. We're pleased to share this report:
Mozambique trip for RFP researchers
Following on from Matt’s trip to the CEA and the IESE in September, Leo, Vanessa and Virgilio will be attending a Ruth First memorial conference in Maputo in late November. The conference is titled ‘Os intelectuais Africanos face aos desafios do século XXI’ and runs from the 28th to 29th of November. The team will also present to the CEA in a plenary session on the 27th.
Virgilio will remain in Maputo until February, conducting a survey of the materials held in the CEA archives.
Read more about the conference on the CEA’s website.
Read about Matt’s trip to Moambique and South Africa in September on the project blog.
Video from the 90 Days film screening
A recording of the talks at the film screening on the 17th of August is now available via the School of Advanced Study YouTube channel. The event featured director Jack Gold in conversation with Professor Philip Murphy and Gavin Williams in conversation with Leo.
Watch the video here.
ICwS seminars for your diary
There are two upcoming seminars in the Institute related to the project:
Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance
26 November 2012, 17:30, ICwS G22/26. Barry Gilder (former intelligence chief in post-apartheid South Africa) will discuss his new book Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance. The session will be chaired by Dr Sue Onslow (Senior Research Fellow and Co-Investigator, Commonwealth Oral History Project).
The Commonwealth in the World: resistance, governance and change, 'Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa on the Edge'
17 January 2013, 5.30pm, ICwS. Author Marc Weston will talk about the modernisation process in West Africa and his new book Ringtone and the Drum.
Mozambique trip for RFP researchers
Following on from Matt’s trip to the CEA and the IESE in September, Leo, Vanessa and Virgilio will be attending a Ruth First memorial conference in Maputo in late November. The conference is titled ‘Os intelectuais Africanos face aos desafios do século XXI’ and runs from the 28th to 29th of November. The team will also present to the CEA in a plenary session on the 27th.
Virgilio will remain in Maputo until February, conducting a survey of the materials held in the CEA archives.
Read more about the conference on the CEA’s website.
Read about Matt’s trip to Moambique and South Africa in September on the project blog.
Video from the 90 Days film screening
A recording of the talks at the film screening on the 17th of August is now available via the School of Advanced Study YouTube channel. The event featured director Jack Gold in conversation with Professor Philip Murphy and Gavin Williams in conversation with Leo.
Watch the video here.
ICwS seminars for your diary
There are two upcoming seminars in the Institute related to the project:
Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance
26 November 2012, 17:30, ICwS G22/26. Barry Gilder (former intelligence chief in post-apartheid South Africa) will discuss his new book Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance. The session will be chaired by Dr Sue Onslow (Senior Research Fellow and Co-Investigator, Commonwealth Oral History Project).
The Commonwealth in the World: resistance, governance and change, 'Ringtone and the Drum: West Africa on the Edge'
17 January 2013, 5.30pm, ICwS. Author Marc Weston will talk about the modernisation process in West Africa and his new book Ringtone and the Drum.
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Bloomsbury Festival: 20th-21st October 2012
The Bloomsbury Festival 2012 will take place on the weekend of the 20th October celebrating the cultural organisations, community groups, creative individuals and iconic institutions of this little-known corner of central London.
From dance to drama, poetry to performance, art to architecture and workshops to walks it’s already promising to be another exciting year with programming taking place across the whole area
Below are listed some exhibitions and talks celebrating some of the Institute's library and archive collections. For a full listing of events please explore: http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/
Exhibition: Ruth First's Extraordinary Life
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
Anti-apartheid activist Ruth First dedicated her life to “the liberation of Africa for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer”. She was passionate about achieving justice in South Africa, but her perspective was international. First saw activism, solidarity work, research and writing as essential activities for a revolutionary. She was assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by the South African secret service. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is digitising this extraordinary woman’s papers. This exhibition of Ruth First’s papers, photographs and archival material at Senate House offers an introduction to both First herself and her important works, which retain their relevance, especially in the light of recent democracy movements across northern Africa and beyond.
Talk: A Revolutionary Life
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-11:30 at Senate House
This talk introduces Ruth First and offers an insight into her multifaceted, revolutionary life as an international scholar, activist and writer, and wife and mother
Talk: Introduction to the Ruth First Archive
Sun 21 Oct 14:00-14:30 at Senate House
This talk will introduce the archive of Ruth First's collection of papers, included her collected writings, published journalism, correspondence and notes.
Talk: Ruth First and Bloomsbury
Sun 21 Oct 15:00-15:30 at Senate House
Following her arrest under the South African 90-day law, Ruth First was barred from her profession as a journalist; she went into exile and moved to London. This talk discusses First's intellectual associations with Bloomsbury.
Exhibition: Campaigning for Independence, Equality and Freedom
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
The political archives held in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies library encompass more than 270 boxes of political pamphlets, newsletters and posters from over 60 countries, mainly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, the period when many of these countries were making the transition to independence. The Southern African region is particularly well represented, with materials from an extraordinarily wide variety of different political parties, trade unions and pressure groups having been preserved. This exhibition reveals how these materials are used to convey different messages in different ways and provide an historical insight not found in official archives and records. Curated by Benjamin Coleman and David Clover.
From dance to drama, poetry to performance, art to architecture and workshops to walks it’s already promising to be another exciting year with programming taking place across the whole area
Below are listed some exhibitions and talks celebrating some of the Institute's library and archive collections. For a full listing of events please explore: http://www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/
Exhibition: Ruth First's Extraordinary Life
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
Anti-apartheid activist Ruth First dedicated her life to “the liberation of Africa for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer”. She was passionate about achieving justice in South Africa, but her perspective was international. First saw activism, solidarity work, research and writing as essential activities for a revolutionary. She was assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by the South African secret service. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is digitising this extraordinary woman’s papers. This exhibition of Ruth First’s papers, photographs and archival material at Senate House offers an introduction to both First herself and her important works, which retain their relevance, especially in the light of recent democracy movements across northern Africa and beyond.
Talk: A Revolutionary Life
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-11:30 at Senate House
This talk introduces Ruth First and offers an insight into her multifaceted, revolutionary life as an international scholar, activist and writer, and wife and mother
Talk: Introduction to the Ruth First Archive
Sun 21 Oct 14:00-14:30 at Senate House
This talk will introduce the archive of Ruth First's collection of papers, included her collected writings, published journalism, correspondence and notes.
Talk: Ruth First and Bloomsbury
Sun 21 Oct 15:00-15:30 at Senate House
Following her arrest under the South African 90-day law, Ruth First was barred from her profession as a journalist; she went into exile and moved to London. This talk discusses First's intellectual associations with Bloomsbury.
Exhibition: Campaigning for Independence, Equality and Freedom
Sat 20 Oct 11:00-17:00 at Senate House
Sun 21 Oct 11:00-16:00 at Senate House
The political archives held in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies library encompass more than 270 boxes of political pamphlets, newsletters and posters from over 60 countries, mainly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, the period when many of these countries were making the transition to independence. The Southern African region is particularly well represented, with materials from an extraordinarily wide variety of different political parties, trade unions and pressure groups having been preserved. This exhibition reveals how these materials are used to convey different messages in different ways and provide an historical insight not found in official archives and records. Curated by Benjamin Coleman and David Clover.
Monday, 10 September 2012
Pamphlets on the South African War
Concluding our posts on the collected volumes of Pamphlets on the South African War (DT930 SOU) volume 4 includes pamphlets published in German and French languages, and volume 5 revisits US perspectives on the War:
Volume 4 contains:
Sudafrika niederdeutsch! / von Fritz Blen.
Munchen : J.F Lehmann's Verlag, 1898.
Der Kampf um das Deutschtum ; vol.17.
Demolins, Edmond, 1852-
Boers et Anglais : ou est le droit? / Edmond Demolins.
Paris : Firmin-Didot et cie., [1900]
Vlugt, Willem van der, 1853-1928.
Transvaal versus Great-Britain : a short commentary upon the Dutch address to the British people / by W. van der Vlugt.
Amsterdam : J.H de Bussy, 1899.
Bureau international permanent de la Paix.
Correspondance bi-mensuelle : edition speciale -no.2 / Bureau international permanent de la Paix. "12 Decembre 1899".
Sud-Afrika -englisch oder deutsch-hollandisch? / von einem
Deutschen aus Sud-Afrika.
Berlin : Vita, 1899.
Guerre de l'Angleterre contre les Boers / Arthur Le Creps.
Perpignan : Maison du Canigon ; 1899.
England in Sudafrika : und die grossen germanischen Weltinteressen / von Heinrich Freiherrn Langwerth Simmern.
Wiesbaden : Lutzenkirchen & Brocking, 1902.
Methods of barbarism : the case for intervention / by W.T. Stead.
London : Mowbray House, 1901.
Are we in the right? : an appeal to honest men / by W.T. Stead.
London : Mowbray House, 1899.
Supplementary list of books and magazine articles relating to South Africa in the New York Public Library.
New York : New York Public Library, 1899 or 1900.
Volume 5 contains:
Open letter to the duke of Devonshire from Charles Boissevain, editor of the Algemeen Handelsblad.
Amsterdam : "Handelsblad" office, [1900]
"Reprinted from no.22500 of the Algemeen Handelsblad".
Realities of the South African war / by the Marquis of Lorne.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.520 (Mar.1900).
The merits of the Transvaal dispute / by Captain A.T. Mahan.
Originally published in: The North American review vol.170 no.70 (1900)
The doom of the Boer obligarchies : a Netherlander's view of the South African problem / Thomas C. Hutten.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.520 (Mar.1900).
America's attitute toward England / by R.A. Alger, former United States Secretary of War.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).
Could the War have been avoided? / by S.M. Macvane.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).
America and the war / by Sydney Brooks.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).
The responsibility of Cecil Rhodes / by a British Officer.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).
The military situation in South Africa / Lt.-Gen. John F. Owen.
Originally published in: The North American Review, vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
Strategical problems in South Africa / Fritz Hoenig.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
Military problems in South Africa / by Major-General O.O. Howard.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
The Dutch in South Africa / by Henry Cust.
Originally published in: The North American review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
The Afrikanders in Natal / by J.C. Voight.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900)
The danger of personal rule in South Africa / by Montagu White.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
German feeling toward England and America : correspondence between Sidney Whitman, F.R.G.S, and Professor Theodor Mommsen, of the University of Berlin.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
The South African Republics vs. Great Britain / by a true American.
New York, 1900.
Volume 4 contains:
Sudafrika niederdeutsch! / von Fritz Blen.
Munchen : J.F Lehmann's Verlag, 1898.
Der Kampf um das Deutschtum ; vol.17.
Demolins, Edmond, 1852-
Boers et Anglais : ou est le droit? / Edmond Demolins.
Paris : Firmin-Didot et cie., [1900]
Vlugt, Willem van der, 1853-1928.
Transvaal versus Great-Britain : a short commentary upon the Dutch address to the British people / by W. van der Vlugt.
Amsterdam : J.H de Bussy, 1899.
Bureau international permanent de la Paix.
Correspondance bi-mensuelle : edition speciale -no.2 / Bureau international permanent de la Paix. "12 Decembre 1899".
Sud-Afrika -englisch oder deutsch-hollandisch? / von einem
Deutschen aus Sud-Afrika.
Berlin : Vita, 1899.
Guerre de l'Angleterre contre les Boers / Arthur Le Creps.
Perpignan : Maison du Canigon ; 1899.
England in Sudafrika : und die grossen germanischen Weltinteressen / von Heinrich Freiherrn Langwerth Simmern.
Wiesbaden : Lutzenkirchen & Brocking, 1902.
Methods of barbarism : the case for intervention / by W.T. Stead.
London : Mowbray House, 1901.
Are we in the right? : an appeal to honest men / by W.T. Stead.
London : Mowbray House, 1899.
Supplementary list of books and magazine articles relating to South Africa in the New York Public Library.
New York : New York Public Library, 1899 or 1900.
Volume 5 contains:
Open letter to the duke of Devonshire from Charles Boissevain, editor of the Algemeen Handelsblad.
Amsterdam : "Handelsblad" office, [1900]
"Reprinted from no.22500 of the Algemeen Handelsblad".
Realities of the South African war / by the Marquis of Lorne.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.520 (Mar.1900).
The merits of the Transvaal dispute / by Captain A.T. Mahan.
Originally published in: The North American review vol.170 no.70 (1900)
The doom of the Boer obligarchies : a Netherlander's view of the South African problem / Thomas C. Hutten.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.520 (Mar.1900).
America's attitute toward England / by R.A. Alger, former United States Secretary of War.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).
Could the War have been avoided? / by S.M. Macvane.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).
America and the war / by Sydney Brooks.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).
The responsibility of Cecil Rhodes / by a British Officer.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).
The military situation in South Africa / Lt.-Gen. John F. Owen.
Originally published in: The North American Review, vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
Strategical problems in South Africa / Fritz Hoenig.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
Military problems in South Africa / by Major-General O.O. Howard.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
The Dutch in South Africa / by Henry Cust.
Originally published in: The North American review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
The Afrikanders in Natal / by J.C. Voight.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900)
The danger of personal rule in South Africa / by Montagu White.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
German feeling toward England and America : correspondence between Sidney Whitman, F.R.G.S, and Professor Theodor Mommsen, of the University of Berlin.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).
The South African Republics vs. Great Britain / by a true American.
New York, 1900.
Saturday, 8 September 2012
Pamphlets on the South African War continued
Further to yesterday's post, in volume two of the collected Pamphlets on the South African War (DT930 SOU) are collected published pamphlets originating from both the UK and South Africa, including papers pubished by the South African Vigilance Committee:
From Boer to Boer and Englishman / by Paul M. Botha.
London : Hugh Rees, 1900.
Translated from the Dutch by C.L. Botha.
The England of to-day / Ch. Brumm.
Manchester, 1900 (printers) (Thiel and Tangye)
Originally published as "Das heutige England" in Die Zukunft.
Cover title: Translation of Mr. Ch. Brumm's reply in the Zukunft to Dr. Tille's attack on England.
"Liberty" versus liberty : some remarks on a South African petition / R.R. Brydone.
Cape Town : South African Vigilance Committee, 1900.
Vigilance papers / South African Vigilance Committee ; no.4.
Address delivered by Dr. Darley Hartley, President of the South African League, at Johannesburg, S.A.R : August 19th, 1896.
Johannesburg, 1896.
Official reports of General J.H. De la Rey and General J.C. Smuts together with other documents relating to the war in South Africa.
London : The New Age Press, 1902.
Translated from the Dutch.
Boers or English: who are in the right? : being the English translation of "Boers et Anglais: ou est le droit?" / by Edmond Demolins.
London : Leadenhall Press, 1900.
The British case against the Boer republics.
Westminster : Imperial South African Association, [1900]
Speech by the Honourable J. Rose-Innes, Q.C, M.L.AB : at the Municipal Hall Claremont, Cape Colony, 30th March 1900 / J. Rose-Innes.
Cape Town : The South African Vigilance Committee, 1900.
Vigilance papers (South African Vigliance Committee) ; no.72.
President Kruger's retrogressive policy / Anon.
"Never again" : Sir Alfred Milner's reply to ministers' address /Alfred Milner.
Cape Town : South African Vigilance Committee, 1900.
Vigilance papers / South African Vigilance Committee ; no.5.
The Afrikander Bond and other causes of the war / by Theophilus Lyndall Schreiner.
London : Spottiswoode & Co., 1901.
The imprisonment of Mr. Cartwright.
London : South Africa Conciliation Committee, [1901]
The South African churches declare for annexation.
Cape Town : South African Vigilance Committee, 1900.
Vigilance papers / South African Vigilance Committee ; no.1. "April 1900".
Rache fur Transvaal! : Deutschlands Wehschrei und Zukunfts-Programm / von Peter Johannes Thiel.
Elberfeld : Lebensheimer Volks-Erziehungs-Verlag, 1900.
The Transvaal war : a lecture delivered in the University of Cambridge on 9th November 1899 by J. Westlake, Q.C., LL.D.
London ; Glasgow : C.J. Clay and Sons, 1899.
A new report by General J.C. Smuts, State Attorney and Assistant-Commandant General of the South African Republic : to His Honour State President S.J.P Kruger.
London : New Age Press, 1902.
Francais - Boers : Conference de M. Georges Berry, Depute de Paris.
Paris : Comite de la jeunesse francaise en faveur du Transvaal,
1900.
Volume 3 includes pamphlets published in connection with the National Liberal Federation and Liberal Central Association, as well as the Manchester Transvaal Committee, the Peace Society and the Guild of Loyal Women of South Africa:
The strange story of the Spion Kop despatches : a typical instance of ministerial mismanagement.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, 1900.
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1829.
A patriotic offer : Why was it refused?.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, [1900]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1834.
A misunderstood despatch.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, [1899]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1821.
The present position / Manchester Transvaal Committee.
Manchester : Manchester Transvaal Committee, 1899.
Manchester Transvaal Committee. Leaflet no.3.
The government and the soliders.
London : Liberal Publication Department, 1900.
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1836.
Sir Edward Clarke on the war in South Africa.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, [1899]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1822.
Slavery under the British flag / by Dr. Spence Watson.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, [1899]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1812.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman on Great Britain and the Transvaal : from a speech at Ilford, June 17th, 1899 / Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, 1899.
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1805.
Labour leaders and the war.
London : Morning Leader.
Mr. Cronwright-Schreiner on Boer and Bond.
Westminster : Imperial South African Association, 1893.
The Tory government, 1895-1899 : promise and performance.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, 1899.
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1819.
Pasting over the old promises : the "ordinary strategy" of the Tories.
London : Liberal Publication Department, [1900]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1833.
(includes a cartoon featuring Joseph Chamberlain replacing Unionist social promises with "Vote for khaki" election poster.)
South African war: a memorial to Her Majesty's Government / The Peace Society.
The Peace Society, [1900]
"The following memorial has been sent from the Peace Society to Lord Salisbury".
These are the principles for which our soldiers are fighting.
London.
Sold for the benefit of the War Fund.
The South African graves fund / K.H.R Stuart.
Whyteleafe, Surrey : Guild of Loyal Women of South Africa, [c.1901]
Guild of Loyal Women of South Africa. Circular no.3.
Under the gracious patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, The Duchess of York, and H.R.H. The Princess Christian.
Friday, 7 September 2012
Pamphlets on the South African War
One of the joys of managing a large collection is the opportunity for new discoveries, to come across items I haven't before noticed. Yesterday I was showing the collection to the new History Librarian at Senate House Library, and spotted five volumes entitled Pamphlets on the South African War, held at DT 930 SOU in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection
The bound volumes appear to have been collated by a previous librarian and added to the collection (at least in bound format) in 1954. No other information on the origin of the collection is available. The volumes collate a number of pamphlets and articles on the South African War of 1899-1902 from British, European and North American sources, providing a rich source for contemporary thought. Within Senate House Library are also held a large selection of pamphlets on the South African War from the John Burns Collection
Volume 1 of the Institute's collected pamphlets includes the following titles:
After the war - what then?
Originally published in: Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, v.167, (no.1013), Mar.1900.
"After" in South Africa / Evelyn Ashley.
Originally published in: The national review, v.33 (Nov.1899).
England and the Transvaal / by Sydney Brooks.
Originally published in: The North American review, Vol.169, no.512 (Jul.1899).
The historical causes of the present war in South Africa / by James Bryce.
Originally published in: The North American review, Vol.169, no.517 (Dec.1899).
The Transvaal war and European opinion / by Karl Blind.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.169, no.517 (Dec.1899).
Will the powers intervene in the war? / by Francis Charmes.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.169, no.517 (Dec.1899).
The crux in South Africa / "Calchas".
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, n.s., vol.69 (1901)
The coming settlement / Coloniensis.
Originally published in: The national review, vol.34 (Apr.1900).
Origin, duration and outcome of the War / by Dr. W.J. Leyds, European agent of the South African Republic.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
England, the Transvaal and the European powers / Hans Delbruck.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
Great Britain on the war-path / by Vladimir Holmstrem and Prince Ookhtomsky.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
A vindication of the Boers : a rejoinder to Mr. Sydney Brooks / by a diplomat.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.169, no.514 (Sep.1899).
Recent events in the Transvaal / Thomas R. Dodd.
Originally published in: The Forum (Sep.1899).
A Transvaal view of the South African question / Dr. F.V. Engelenburg.
Originally published in: The North American Review, vol.159, no.515 (Oct.1899).
The case of the Netherlands railway / Fairplay.
Originally published in: The national review [London], [1900 or 1901]
England and the Transvaal / Earl Grey.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
Mr. Rhodes, Lord Milner and the South African settlement / E.B. Iwan-Muller.
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, n.s., vol.72 (Sep.1902).
The Government and the War / An officer.
Originally published in: The contemporary review, vol.76 (Dec.1899).
The Portuguese in East Africa / Daniel J. Rankin.
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, vol.47 no 277 (1890)
The South African settlement / J.B. Robinson.
Originally published in: The contemporary review, vol.78 (Oct.1900).
The Boer filibusters in 1884-5 : a study for 1896 / by Styrka.
Originally published in: The united service magazine vol.133 (n.s. vol.12) no.808 (Mar.1896).
L'opinion publique et la guerre Africaine / Ed. Tallichet.
Text in French.
Originally published in: Bibliotheque universelle, vol.18 (1900).
The Transvaal.
Originally published in: The quarterly review, vol.155 no.310, c.1883.
The relation of England to the Transvaal in international law / James Gustavus Whiteley.
Originally published in: The forum (Oct.1899)
How we occupied Mashonaland / John Willoughby.
Originally published in: The Fortnightly Review, n.s., vol.49, no.292 (1 Apr.1891).
The Cape to Cairo : the Buluwayo-Tanganyika and other railways / J.T Wills.
Originally published in: The contemporary review (1899).
The South African conspiracy against British rule / Theodore A. Wirgman.
Originally published in: The nineteenth century (1900).
The tragedy of errors / Auberon Herbert.
Originally published in: The contemporary review, vol.77 (1900).
Issues at stake in South Africa / Alfred Hillier.
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, vol.67 (1900).
The Boer ambition / Douglas Story.
Originally published in: The new century review, vol.6 (Nov.1899).
The Transvaal question : two points of view / Liberticus.
Originally published in: The new century review, vol.6 (Nov.1899).
The expansion of South Africa / John Mackenzie.
"Originally published in: The contemporary review (Nov.1889).
The British Army: resume of a conversation with Field Marshal H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., upon the Transvaal war and considerations arising therefrom.
Originally published in: The North American review ; Vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
The bound volumes appear to have been collated by a previous librarian and added to the collection (at least in bound format) in 1954. No other information on the origin of the collection is available. The volumes collate a number of pamphlets and articles on the South African War of 1899-1902 from British, European and North American sources, providing a rich source for contemporary thought. Within Senate House Library are also held a large selection of pamphlets on the South African War from the John Burns Collection
Volume 1 of the Institute's collected pamphlets includes the following titles:
After the war - what then?
Originally published in: Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, v.167, (no.1013), Mar.1900.
"After" in South Africa / Evelyn Ashley.
Originally published in: The national review, v.33 (Nov.1899).
England and the Transvaal / by Sydney Brooks.
Originally published in: The North American review, Vol.169, no.512 (Jul.1899).
The historical causes of the present war in South Africa / by James Bryce.
Originally published in: The North American review, Vol.169, no.517 (Dec.1899).
The Transvaal war and European opinion / by Karl Blind.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.169, no.517 (Dec.1899).
Will the powers intervene in the war? / by Francis Charmes.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.169, no.517 (Dec.1899).
The crux in South Africa / "Calchas".
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, n.s., vol.69 (1901)
The coming settlement / Coloniensis.
Originally published in: The national review, vol.34 (Apr.1900).
Origin, duration and outcome of the War / by Dr. W.J. Leyds, European agent of the South African Republic.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
England, the Transvaal and the European powers / Hans Delbruck.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
Great Britain on the war-path / by Vladimir Holmstrem and Prince Ookhtomsky.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
A vindication of the Boers : a rejoinder to Mr. Sydney Brooks / by a diplomat.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.169, no.514 (Sep.1899).
Recent events in the Transvaal / Thomas R. Dodd.
Originally published in: The Forum (Sep.1899).
A Transvaal view of the South African question / Dr. F.V. Engelenburg.
Originally published in: The North American Review, vol.159, no.515 (Oct.1899).
The case of the Netherlands railway / Fairplay.
Originally published in: The national review [London], [1900 or 1901]
England and the Transvaal / Earl Grey.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
Mr. Rhodes, Lord Milner and the South African settlement / E.B. Iwan-Muller.
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, n.s., vol.72 (Sep.1902).
The Government and the War / An officer.
Originally published in: The contemporary review, vol.76 (Dec.1899).
The Portuguese in East Africa / Daniel J. Rankin.
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, vol.47 no 277 (1890)
The South African settlement / J.B. Robinson.
Originally published in: The contemporary review, vol.78 (Oct.1900).
The Boer filibusters in 1884-5 : a study for 1896 / by Styrka.
Originally published in: The united service magazine vol.133 (n.s. vol.12) no.808 (Mar.1896).
L'opinion publique et la guerre Africaine / Ed. Tallichet.
Text in French.
Originally published in: Bibliotheque universelle, vol.18 (1900).
The Transvaal.
Originally published in: The quarterly review, vol.155 no.310, c.1883.
The relation of England to the Transvaal in international law / James Gustavus Whiteley.
Originally published in: The forum (Oct.1899)
How we occupied Mashonaland / John Willoughby.
Originally published in: The Fortnightly Review, n.s., vol.49, no.292 (1 Apr.1891).
The Cape to Cairo : the Buluwayo-Tanganyika and other railways / J.T Wills.
Originally published in: The contemporary review (1899).
The South African conspiracy against British rule / Theodore A. Wirgman.
Originally published in: The nineteenth century (1900).
The tragedy of errors / Auberon Herbert.
Originally published in: The contemporary review, vol.77 (1900).
Issues at stake in South Africa / Alfred Hillier.
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, vol.67 (1900).
The Boer ambition / Douglas Story.
Originally published in: The new century review, vol.6 (Nov.1899).
The Transvaal question : two points of view / Liberticus.
Originally published in: The new century review, vol.6 (Nov.1899).
The expansion of South Africa / John Mackenzie.
"Originally published in: The contemporary review (Nov.1889).
The British Army: resume of a conversation with Field Marshal H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., upon the Transvaal war and considerations arising therefrom.
Originally published in: The North American review ; Vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).
Monday, 6 August 2012
South African Theses and Dissertations
The National ETD Portal South Africa: South African Theses and Dissertations
http://www.netd.ac.za/
is run by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) in collaboration with the Committee of Higher Education Librarians of South Africa (CHELSA).
The database provides access to abstracts of and the full text of many thousands of doctoral PhD and some other (e.g. MA) dissertations produced in South African universities. These cover the full range of science, social science and humanities topics. There is some coverage from as early as the 1970s although there are larger numbers of post 2009 records. Search is by keyword or browsing title, institution or year.
Access to the full text is through clicking on the Identifier in the Abstract record
http://www.netd.ac.za/
is run by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) in collaboration with the Committee of Higher Education Librarians of South Africa (CHELSA).
The database provides access to abstracts of and the full text of many thousands of doctoral PhD and some other (e.g. MA) dissertations produced in South African universities. These cover the full range of science, social science and humanities topics. There is some coverage from as early as the 1970s although there are larger numbers of post 2009 records. Search is by keyword or browsing title, institution or year.
Access to the full text is through clicking on the Identifier in the Abstract record
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Exhibition: Ruth First: A Revolutionary Life. Early Anti-Apartheid Journalism and Activism
To coincide with the Ruth First Papers project symposium, taking place on the 7th of June the Library has put up a small (two cases) display of material from the Ruth First and related collections.
This exhibition concentrates on the period 1946-1964 when Ruth First was active in South Africa as both journalist and activist and includes material relating to the Bethal farm labour scandal, the Freedom Charter, the Treason Trial, the banning of the Guardian and the subsequent Freedom of the Press Conference of November 1951, Ruth First's journalism, her banning and arrest and detention under the 90-day law.
The exhibition is on the fourth floor of Senate House, in the Membership Hall of the Senate House Library and admission is free (just say at the membership desk you wish to see the exhibition).
This exhibition concentrates on the period 1946-1964 when Ruth First was active in South Africa as both journalist and activist and includes material relating to the Bethal farm labour scandal, the Freedom Charter, the Treason Trial, the banning of the Guardian and the subsequent Freedom of the Press Conference of November 1951, Ruth First's journalism, her banning and arrest and detention under the 90-day law.
The exhibition is on the fourth floor of Senate House, in the Membership Hall of the Senate House Library and admission is free (just say at the membership desk you wish to see the exhibition).
Friday, 11 May 2012
African Activist Archive Project
The African Activist Archive Project now has 5,000 digital items in its free, online collection (http://africanactivist.msu.edu/) from the U.S. anti-apartheid and other solidarity movements during the early 1950s to the mid-1990s. It includes documents, posters, photographs, T-shirts, buttons, and audio and video recordings that were produced by more than 260 groups in 35 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia. The archive also includes materials in support of the anti-colonial struggles elsewhere in Southern Africa, especially Namibia, Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau.
Staff at Michigan State University Libraries are continuing to add materials - 1,500 items in 2011 and a planned 1,000 more in 2012, and also continue to contact former activists in the Africa solidarity movement.
In January, the project started a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/African.Activist.Archive)
highlighting historically interesting and newly added items to the digital collection and pointing to similar archival projects.
Any UK readers with collections of similar material are very welcome to contact David Clover at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library
Staff at Michigan State University Libraries are continuing to add materials - 1,500 items in 2011 and a planned 1,000 more in 2012, and also continue to contact former activists in the Africa solidarity movement.
In January, the project started a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/African.Activist.Archive)
highlighting historically interesting and newly added items to the digital collection and pointing to similar archival projects.
Any UK readers with collections of similar material are very welcome to contact David Clover at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Newly open archives collection - Papers of Ben Turok
Newly opened and made available for researchers are ICS143 The papers of Benjamin Turok.
The papers of Benjamin Turok, were held by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the originals returned to Turok after his return to South Africa, with a microfilm copy made and kept to provide access to researchers. The papers relate to his political involvement in South Africa (1961-1981) and include biographical tapes and transcripts (1983-1984); African National Congress (ANC) speeches, publications, press releases, and other material, 1971-1981; papers of the Institute for Industrial Education, Durban, 1974-1978; papers of the Communist Party of South Africa, 1978 and undated; papers of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, 1971-1973; correspondence, 1971-1980, with Oliver Tambo and others, mainly on ANC activities; transcripts and audio tapes of biographical material.
Benjamin Turok, was born in Latvia, 1927; and came with his family to South Africa, 1934. He was educated at the University of Cape Town; taught in London, 1950-1953; and returned to South Africa in 1953, becoming a full-time political activist: joining the South African Congress of Democrats and in 1955 became its secretary for the Cape western region, and acting as a full-time organiser for the Congress of the People. Turok was one of authors of the Freedom Charter; served with a banning order in 1955; arrested in the Treason Trial in 1956 and stood trial until charges against him were withdrawn in 1958; elected unopposed to represent Africans of the Western Cape on the Cape Provincial Council, 1957. During the 1960 emergency Turok evaded arrest, and went underground to help reestablish the ANC organisation; in 1962 he was convicted under the Explosives Act, and sentenced to three years in prison; after his release he escaped via Botswana; and resident in the UK from 1972 and employed by the Open University. He returned to South Africa in 1990; and was the first Head of the Commission on the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) in the Gauteng Provincial Cabinet, 1994; and a member of the South African Parliament, representing the African National Congress, from 1995-present (2012).
The papers of Benjamin Turok, were held by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the originals returned to Turok after his return to South Africa, with a microfilm copy made and kept to provide access to researchers. The papers relate to his political involvement in South Africa (1961-1981) and include biographical tapes and transcripts (1983-1984); African National Congress (ANC) speeches, publications, press releases, and other material, 1971-1981; papers of the Institute for Industrial Education, Durban, 1974-1978; papers of the Communist Party of South Africa, 1978 and undated; papers of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, 1971-1973; correspondence, 1971-1980, with Oliver Tambo and others, mainly on ANC activities; transcripts and audio tapes of biographical material.
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project.
The Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project is now available online from the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and the Google Cultural Institute. The exhibition brings together 2000 documents, photographs and videos from all the key moments of his life, including his childhood, imprisonment and Presidency. Material included includes manuscripts of his autobiographical writings, calendars kept while in prison, diaires from the Presidential years, correspondence, video and photographs. The project is still in progress and more material is expected to be added over time.
The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory delivers the core-work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1999 to support its Founder’s ongoing engagement in worthy causes on his retirement as President of South Africa. The Foundation is registered as a trust, with its board of trustees comprising prominent South Africans selected by the Founder.
The Centre of Memory was inaugurated by Nelson Mandela on 21 September 2004, and endorsed as the core work of the Foundation in 2006. The Centre focuses on three areas of work: the Life and Time of Nelson Mandela, Dialogue for Social Justice and Nelson Mandela International Day. The Centre works closely with its sister organisations, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and The Mandela Rhodes Foundation. It co-ordinates its activities with those of other institutions that have a stake in its Founder’s legacy, including the 46664 Campaign, the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development, the Nelson Mandela Museum and the Robben Island Museum.
The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory delivers the core-work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1999 to support its Founder’s ongoing engagement in worthy causes on his retirement as President of South Africa. The Foundation is registered as a trust, with its board of trustees comprising prominent South Africans selected by the Founder.
The Centre of Memory was inaugurated by Nelson Mandela on 21 September 2004, and endorsed as the core work of the Foundation in 2006. The Centre focuses on three areas of work: the Life and Time of Nelson Mandela, Dialogue for Social Justice and Nelson Mandela International Day. The Centre works closely with its sister organisations, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and The Mandela Rhodes Foundation. It co-ordinates its activities with those of other institutions that have a stake in its Founder’s legacy, including the 46664 Campaign, the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development, the Nelson Mandela Museum and the Robben Island Museum.
Monday, 2 April 2012
New Senate House Library archives collection listed
Recently added to the Senate House Library collection is additional material from the book collector Ron Heisler
The Ron Heisler collection (MS1186) incluides a number of files relating to Commonwealth studies, including material on Sri Lankan Trotskyism, comprising of memoranda, news bulletins, and correspondence, dating from c1975 to 2007; correspondence from c1947-1960 with the South African trade unionist and socialist, Solly Sachs, who was author of The Choice Before South Africa (1952), The Rebel's Daughters (also called Garment workers in action) (1957), with L Forman The South African Treason Trial (1959) and The Anatomy of Apartheid (1965); and a number of photographs signed by the New Zealand writer, social reformer and member of the Chinese Communist Party, Rewi Alley.
The Ron Heisler collection (MS1186) incluides a number of files relating to Commonwealth studies, including material on Sri Lankan Trotskyism, comprising of memoranda, news bulletins, and correspondence, dating from c1975 to 2007; correspondence from c1947-1960 with the South African trade unionist and socialist, Solly Sachs, who was author of The Choice Before South Africa (1952), The Rebel's Daughters (also called Garment workers in action) (1957), with L Forman The South African Treason Trial (1959) and The Anatomy of Apartheid (1965); and a number of photographs signed by the New Zealand writer, social reformer and member of the Chinese Communist Party, Rewi Alley.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
CFP: The Global Antiapartheid Era: 1946-1994
The Global Antiapartheid Era: 1946-1994 (Radical History Review, Number 119) Call for Proposals
The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue on the global politics of the anti-apartheid movement, 1946-1994. The time frame underlines our sense of the global significance of what we call the Anti-apartheid Era, inaugurated by the postwar United Nations debates on discrimination suffered by Indians in South Africa and culminating in the post-Cold War transition to democracy in South Africa during the 1990s. As we see it, this anti-apartheid era encompasses the evolution of the United Nations, decolonization, the Cold War, the founding of the non-aligned movement at Bandung, the rise (and fall) of Third World solidarity structures, the U.S. Civil Rights Movements, Left-Leaning Revolutions, human rights politics, upheavals of the global Sixties, and the onset of neoliberal globalization and offers new ways of connecting and contextualizing these various developments.
In 1990, the same year that Nelson Mandela walked free from prison to celebrations held around the world, the RHR published a double issue on "History from South Africa." The issue was the result of years of collaboration between the History Workshop at the University of Witwatersrand and the American Social History Project. A little over twenty years later, as a companion and follow-up to that volume, RHR is calling for an issue that centers the history of antiapartheid solidarity. One of the most striking developments in historical research and writing over the last twenty years has been the growing interest in international, transnational, and global history. Widening our focus from the struggle against apartheid inside South Africa to a global frame reveals an exciting range of new perspectives.
For example, what happened in South Africa was bound up with struggles and anti-racist/anti-imperialist work across southern Africa and throughout the world. This activism of citizens from dozens of countries and South/ern African exiles took not only local and national forms, but often transnational forms in such initiatives as sports and cultural boycotts, corporate accountability campaigns, and calls for the release of Nelson Mandela that involved coordination across borders and appeals to a global audience. These transnational networks and campaigns were astonishing in their variety, interconnections, and persistence. There is much more to learn about the nature, scale, and scope of the antiapartheid cause, from civic and popular organizing in India, Japan, the Caribbean, independent Africa, and the "actually existing" socialist countries to the realm of international nongovernmental organizations, such as labor confederations, ecumenical religious councils, and humanitarian, pacifist, and human rights groups, to the formation of a new post-Civil Rights cohort of social activists inside the U.S.
If we borrow from the work of sociologists on global social movements and the global structures of political opportunity they engage with, we can appreciate that the antiapartheid cause unfolded from above as well as below. In addition to transnational advocacy networks and international NGOs, we need to take into account the often substantial efforts of the United Nations and allied intergovernmental agencies (e.g., the International Labour Organisation), the Organization of African Unity, international groupings such as the socialist countries and the European Community, international trade union federations, and individual states. Accordingly, we seek contributions that will trace and assess the extent and limits of the worldwide solidarity achieved in the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in Southern Africa and the impact of this solidarity on global norms of racial equality and human rights to self-determination, democracy, and development.
We are soliciting submissions that engage with one or more of the following areas of concern.
* the emergence of large-scale organizations, networks, publications, campaigns, that gave shape and weight to this global movement.
* the roles and experiences of individual activists, advocates, artists, writers, and scholars, especially the diaspora of exiles from South/ern Africa. Interviews with anti-apartheid activists are especially welcome.
* the role of "new nation-states and socialist nations" such as India, Egypt and Cuba, and/or the Non-aligned Movement in the antiapartheid struggle.
* the impact of transnational activism on apartheid South Africa and the other white minority and colonial regimes of Southern Africa, the foreign banks, corporations, the governments of the U.S., Britain, and other states involved in the region.
* the role of intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies such as the United Nations, the OAU, international labor and ecumenical bodies, and collaborations/challenges that emerged between/against these agencies.
* the production, circulation, and reception of antiapartheid and liberation symbols, imagery, music, fiction, theater, films, and other cultural expressions and media.
* the adaptation of the global anti-apartheid cause in diverse communities and societies and its articulation to local or national demands, especially around recognition and justice for excluded or subordinated populations, such as indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, Dalits in India, Palestinians, and people of African descent throughout the Americas. Comparative investigations are welcome.
* the application of international human rights law to the case of apartheid and the further development of this framework through interaction with the antiapartheid cause.
* the place of the global anti-apartheid struggle in the reshaping of public history and memory in post-apartheid South Africa, in museums, historical sites, and history textbooks.
Radical History Review publishes material in a wide variety of forms.
The editors will consider scholarly research articles as well as photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, brief interventions, essays on museum and other public history forums, "conversations" between scholars and/or activists, teaching notes and annotated course syllabi, and research notes.
At this time we request that potential contributors submit 1-2 page abstracts summarizing the article you wish to include in this issue as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with "Issue 119 abstract submission" in the subject line. Initial abstracts and article proposals are due by May 15, 2012.
By June 15, 2012, selected authors will be invited to prepare a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is February 1, 2013. Final article manuscripts ready for publication must be returned to the editors by Aug. 1, 2013.
Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 119 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Spring 2014. The issue editors strongly encourage the submission of images or artwork to illustrate textual pieces, as well as photo or other visual essays. Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document. If chosen for publication, authors will need to send separate, high-resolution images files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), along with written permission to reprint all images.
The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue on the global politics of the anti-apartheid movement, 1946-1994. The time frame underlines our sense of the global significance of what we call the Anti-apartheid Era, inaugurated by the postwar United Nations debates on discrimination suffered by Indians in South Africa and culminating in the post-Cold War transition to democracy in South Africa during the 1990s. As we see it, this anti-apartheid era encompasses the evolution of the United Nations, decolonization, the Cold War, the founding of the non-aligned movement at Bandung, the rise (and fall) of Third World solidarity structures, the U.S. Civil Rights Movements, Left-Leaning Revolutions, human rights politics, upheavals of the global Sixties, and the onset of neoliberal globalization and offers new ways of connecting and contextualizing these various developments.
In 1990, the same year that Nelson Mandela walked free from prison to celebrations held around the world, the RHR published a double issue on "History from South Africa." The issue was the result of years of collaboration between the History Workshop at the University of Witwatersrand and the American Social History Project. A little over twenty years later, as a companion and follow-up to that volume, RHR is calling for an issue that centers the history of antiapartheid solidarity. One of the most striking developments in historical research and writing over the last twenty years has been the growing interest in international, transnational, and global history. Widening our focus from the struggle against apartheid inside South Africa to a global frame reveals an exciting range of new perspectives.
For example, what happened in South Africa was bound up with struggles and anti-racist/anti-imperialist work across southern Africa and throughout the world. This activism of citizens from dozens of countries and South/ern African exiles took not only local and national forms, but often transnational forms in such initiatives as sports and cultural boycotts, corporate accountability campaigns, and calls for the release of Nelson Mandela that involved coordination across borders and appeals to a global audience. These transnational networks and campaigns were astonishing in their variety, interconnections, and persistence. There is much more to learn about the nature, scale, and scope of the antiapartheid cause, from civic and popular organizing in India, Japan, the Caribbean, independent Africa, and the "actually existing" socialist countries to the realm of international nongovernmental organizations, such as labor confederations, ecumenical religious councils, and humanitarian, pacifist, and human rights groups, to the formation of a new post-Civil Rights cohort of social activists inside the U.S.
If we borrow from the work of sociologists on global social movements and the global structures of political opportunity they engage with, we can appreciate that the antiapartheid cause unfolded from above as well as below. In addition to transnational advocacy networks and international NGOs, we need to take into account the often substantial efforts of the United Nations and allied intergovernmental agencies (e.g., the International Labour Organisation), the Organization of African Unity, international groupings such as the socialist countries and the European Community, international trade union federations, and individual states. Accordingly, we seek contributions that will trace and assess the extent and limits of the worldwide solidarity achieved in the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in Southern Africa and the impact of this solidarity on global norms of racial equality and human rights to self-determination, democracy, and development.
We are soliciting submissions that engage with one or more of the following areas of concern.
* the emergence of large-scale organizations, networks, publications, campaigns, that gave shape and weight to this global movement.
* the roles and experiences of individual activists, advocates, artists, writers, and scholars, especially the diaspora of exiles from South/ern Africa. Interviews with anti-apartheid activists are especially welcome.
* the role of "new nation-states and socialist nations" such as India, Egypt and Cuba, and/or the Non-aligned Movement in the antiapartheid struggle.
* the impact of transnational activism on apartheid South Africa and the other white minority and colonial regimes of Southern Africa, the foreign banks, corporations, the governments of the U.S., Britain, and other states involved in the region.
* the role of intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies such as the United Nations, the OAU, international labor and ecumenical bodies, and collaborations/challenges that emerged between/against these agencies.
* the production, circulation, and reception of antiapartheid and liberation symbols, imagery, music, fiction, theater, films, and other cultural expressions and media.
* the adaptation of the global anti-apartheid cause in diverse communities and societies and its articulation to local or national demands, especially around recognition and justice for excluded or subordinated populations, such as indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, Dalits in India, Palestinians, and people of African descent throughout the Americas. Comparative investigations are welcome.
* the application of international human rights law to the case of apartheid and the further development of this framework through interaction with the antiapartheid cause.
* the place of the global anti-apartheid struggle in the reshaping of public history and memory in post-apartheid South Africa, in museums, historical sites, and history textbooks.
Radical History Review publishes material in a wide variety of forms.
The editors will consider scholarly research articles as well as photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, brief interventions, essays on museum and other public history forums, "conversations" between scholars and/or activists, teaching notes and annotated course syllabi, and research notes.
At this time we request that potential contributors submit 1-2 page abstracts summarizing the article you wish to include in this issue as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with "Issue 119 abstract submission" in the subject line. Initial abstracts and article proposals are due by May 15, 2012.
By June 15, 2012, selected authors will be invited to prepare a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is February 1, 2013. Final article manuscripts ready for publication must be returned to the editors by Aug. 1, 2013.
Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 119 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Spring 2014. The issue editors strongly encourage the submission of images or artwork to illustrate textual pieces, as well as photo or other visual essays. Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document. If chosen for publication, authors will need to send separate, high-resolution images files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), along with written permission to reprint all images.
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Journal of Natal & Zulu History
The Journal of Natal & Zulu History is available free as an online journal, though you will have to rgister to access the content. Some recent tables of contents are shown below:
JOURNAL OF NATAL & ZULU HISTORY
http://www.history.ukzn.ac.za/ojs/index.php/jnzh/issue/view/161/showToc
Volume 29, 2011
Table of Contents
Articles
Practices of Naming and the Possibilities of Home on American Zulu Mission Stations in Colonial Natal Meghan Elizabeth Healy and Eva Jackson
The Natal Militia: Defence of the Colony, 1893-1910 Paul Thompson
“Colours Do Not Mix”: Segregated Classes at the University of Natal, 1936-1959 Surendra Bhana and Goolam Vahed
Political Violence – Disrupting Ways of ‘Doing’ Politics: An Exploration of Organisational and Political Life in Mpumalanga Township,1970s-1980s Debby Bonnin
Learning About Controversial Issues in School History: The Experiences of Learners in KwaZulu-Natal Schools Johan Wassermann
Book Reviews
A Fire That Blazed in the Ocean – Gandhi and the poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909 -1911 by Surendra Bhana and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt Devarakshanam [Betty] Govinden
http://www.history.ukzn.ac.za/ojs/index.php/jnzh/issue/view/146
2010
HISTORY AND HERITAGE: A SPECIAL ISSUE ON FORMER AMERICAN BOARD MISSION STATIONS IN SOUTHERN KWAZULU-NATAL
Table of Contents
Editorial: History and Heritage Vukile Khumalo
Articles
The Economic Experimentation of Nembula Duze/ Ira Adams Nembula, 1845 – 1886 Eva Jackson
Nomambotwe Khawula of Umzumbe in Natal, 1860 – 1927 Bridget Portmann
“The struggle for survival” : Last years of Adams College, 1953-1956 Percy Ngonyama
H.I.E Dhlomo’s brilliance as a writer, dramatist, poet and politician knew no bounds: A Reappraisal Mwelela Cele
History and Heritage: Socio-economic profiles of six former American Board Mission Stations in southern KwaZulu-Natal Ntokozo Zungu, Vukile Khumalo
Cultural Heritage Tourism Potential at Six former American Board Mission Stations Gordon Fakude
JOURNAL OF NATAL & ZULU HISTORY
http://www.history.ukzn.ac.za/ojs/index.php/jnzh/issue/view/161/showToc
Volume 29, 2011
Table of Contents
Articles
Practices of Naming and the Possibilities of Home on American Zulu Mission Stations in Colonial Natal Meghan Elizabeth Healy and Eva Jackson
The Natal Militia: Defence of the Colony, 1893-1910 Paul Thompson
“Colours Do Not Mix”: Segregated Classes at the University of Natal, 1936-1959 Surendra Bhana and Goolam Vahed
Political Violence – Disrupting Ways of ‘Doing’ Politics: An Exploration of Organisational and Political Life in Mpumalanga Township,1970s-1980s Debby Bonnin
Learning About Controversial Issues in School History: The Experiences of Learners in KwaZulu-Natal Schools Johan Wassermann
Book Reviews
A Fire That Blazed in the Ocean – Gandhi and the poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909 -1911 by Surendra Bhana and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt Devarakshanam [Betty] Govinden
http://www.history.ukzn.ac.za/ojs/index.php/jnzh/issue/view/146
2010
HISTORY AND HERITAGE: A SPECIAL ISSUE ON FORMER AMERICAN BOARD MISSION STATIONS IN SOUTHERN KWAZULU-NATAL
Table of Contents
Editorial: History and Heritage Vukile Khumalo
Articles
The Economic Experimentation of Nembula Duze/ Ira Adams Nembula, 1845 – 1886 Eva Jackson
Nomambotwe Khawula of Umzumbe in Natal, 1860 – 1927 Bridget Portmann
“The struggle for survival” : Last years of Adams College, 1953-1956 Percy Ngonyama
H.I.E Dhlomo’s brilliance as a writer, dramatist, poet and politician knew no bounds: A Reappraisal Mwelela Cele
History and Heritage: Socio-economic profiles of six former American Board Mission Stations in southern KwaZulu-Natal Ntokozo Zungu, Vukile Khumalo
Cultural Heritage Tourism Potential at Six former American Board Mission Stations Gordon Fakude
Monday, 20 February 2012
Another new apartheid archive online
We recently announced announce that we had added a PDF version of the catalogue of the Marion Friedmann papers to the Senate House Libraries archives catalogue, a collection which included material regarding the Liberal Party of South Africa, of which she was a founder member.
We're very pleased today, to announce another new PDF catalogue has been made available.
The Peter Hjul papers were donated by Peter Hjul, was was active in the Liberal Party of South Africa and chaired the Cape Provincial Division. He also chaired the editorial board of the radical fortnightly "Contact" and was also the editor of the South African Shipping News and Fishing Industry Review. He and his family were harassed by South African security forces and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1965, where Peter Hjul continued his career as a journalist.
The collection comprises material on the Liberal Party of South Africa and civil rights, and includes meeting minutes, correspondence and open letters, posters announcing meetings, election leaflets, various reports and nine issues of Contact, dating from October 1964 to June 1965.
We're very pleased today, to announce another new PDF catalogue has been made available.
The Peter Hjul papers were donated by Peter Hjul, was was active in the Liberal Party of South Africa and chaired the Cape Provincial Division. He also chaired the editorial board of the radical fortnightly "Contact" and was also the editor of the South African Shipping News and Fishing Industry Review. He and his family were harassed by South African security forces and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1965, where Peter Hjul continued his career as a journalist.
The collection comprises material on the Liberal Party of South Africa and civil rights, and includes meeting minutes, correspondence and open letters, posters announcing meetings, election leaflets, various reports and nine issues of Contact, dating from October 1964 to June 1965.
Friday, 10 February 2012
New apartheid archive catalogue online
We are pleased to announce that we have added a PDF version of the catalogue of the Marion Friedmann papers to the Senate House Libraries archives catalogue.
Marion Friedmann was born in 1918, and was a founder member of the Liberal Party of South Africa.
The multiracial Liberal Party of South Africa was founded in 1954, and was forced to disband under the Prohibition of Political Interference Act of 1968.
The collection held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library and Archive comprises of material collected on South African politics, chiefly apartheid and the oppression of black South Africans. It includes electioneering material, national statements by the Liberal Party of South Africa on political issues, correspondence, biographical material on Stephen Nkadimeng, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, and Duma Nokwe, and various issues of journals Assagai, Contact, Liberal News, and Liberal Opinion. The collection also includes pamphlets and leaflets produced by groups including the ANC, South African Congress of Democrats, and Civil Rights League.
Friday, 3 February 2012
A revolutionary life: Ruth First 1925-1982
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has recently begun a project focused on the life and work of Ruth First, the South African journalist, writer, scholar and anti-apartheid activist. This project will include selective digitisation of some of the material from the Ruth First Archive collection held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library.
Also as part of the project a symposium is planned for the 7th of June, details below:
A revolutionary life: Ruth First 1925-1982
07 June 2012, 10:00 - 19:00
Room 349 (Senate House, University of London)
This event is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Ruth First was an anti-apartheid activist, investigative journalist, and scholar. First worked her entire life to end apartheid in South Africa, writing in 1969 she explained how she her life was dedicated ‘to the liberation of African for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer’. Her knowledge of the continent was phenomenal and she knew many of the continent’s leading political figures Nelson Mandela, Ben Bella, Oginda Odinga. First was an influential figure, who saw activism, solidarity work (for the anti-apartheid struggle) and her research and writing as inextricably linked. She was exiled from South Africa in 1964, with her husband, the prominent South African communist Joe Slovo and their children. In 1982, while working in Mozambique, Ruth First was killed by a letter bomb sent by South Africa secret service.
2012 is the thirtieth anniversary of Ruth First’s murder. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS) and the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau are holding a one-day celebration of Ruth First’s extraordinary life and work. The event is part of year long project that is digitising some of Ruth First’s papers and books held at the ICS.
The event will include Justice Albie Sachs, Gillian Slovo, Barbara Harlow, Shula Marks and Alan Wieder.
Cost: £10 (standard); £5 (students/unwaged) (includes lunch and refreshments)
Registration form
RSVP to chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Also as part of the project a symposium is planned for the 7th of June, details below:
A revolutionary life: Ruth First 1925-1982
07 June 2012, 10:00 - 19:00
Room 349 (Senate House, University of London)
This event is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Ruth First was an anti-apartheid activist, investigative journalist, and scholar. First worked her entire life to end apartheid in South Africa, writing in 1969 she explained how she her life was dedicated ‘to the liberation of African for I count myself an African, and there is no cause I hold dearer’. Her knowledge of the continent was phenomenal and she knew many of the continent’s leading political figures Nelson Mandela, Ben Bella, Oginda Odinga. First was an influential figure, who saw activism, solidarity work (for the anti-apartheid struggle) and her research and writing as inextricably linked. She was exiled from South Africa in 1964, with her husband, the prominent South African communist Joe Slovo and their children. In 1982, while working in Mozambique, Ruth First was killed by a letter bomb sent by South Africa secret service.
2012 is the thirtieth anniversary of Ruth First’s murder. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS) and the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau are holding a one-day celebration of Ruth First’s extraordinary life and work. The event is part of year long project that is digitising some of Ruth First’s papers and books held at the ICS.
The event will include Justice Albie Sachs, Gillian Slovo, Barbara Harlow, Shula Marks and Alan Wieder.
Cost: £10 (standard); £5 (students/unwaged) (includes lunch and refreshments)
Registration form
RSVP to chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Friday, 6 January 2012
ANC Centenary
It is one hundred years since the African National Congress was founded, On January 8th 1912, chiefs, representatives of people`s and church organisations, and other prominent individuals gathered in Bloemfontein and formed the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), later named the African National Congress (1923). The ANC declared its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms.
The ANC has a website showcasing their history and events taking place as part of the celebrations.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has a wide range of material on and published by the ANC, as well as other important groups who were part of the South African liberation struggle. The collection includes material catalogued as part of our political pamphlets project, and the library holds over 400 individual titles published by the ANC, including newsletters and journals as well as pamphlets, leaflets, manifestos, etc.
Archive collections include a specific collection of material from the ANC and Indian organisations in South Africa (in both print and microfilm), the Mandela Trials papers, as well as papers of activists including Ruth First, Mary Benson, Ruth Hayman, Marion Friedmann , Baruch Hirson, Tim Matthews, Z K Matthews, Josie Palmer.
The archive collection also includes Ralph Johnson Bunche's account of the Silver Anniversary meeting of the African National Congress in Bloemfontein in December 1937
The ANC has a website showcasing their history and events taking place as part of the celebrations.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has a wide range of material on and published by the ANC, as well as other important groups who were part of the South African liberation struggle. The collection includes material catalogued as part of our political pamphlets project, and the library holds over 400 individual titles published by the ANC, including newsletters and journals as well as pamphlets, leaflets, manifestos, etc.
Archive collections include a specific collection of material from the ANC and Indian organisations in South Africa (in both print and microfilm), the Mandela Trials papers, as well as papers of activists including Ruth First, Mary Benson, Ruth Hayman, Marion Friedmann , Baruch Hirson, Tim Matthews, Z K Matthews, Josie Palmer.
The archive collection also includes Ralph Johnson Bunche's account of the Silver Anniversary meeting of the African National Congress in Bloemfontein in December 1937
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Olive Schreiner Letters Project and the Olive Schreiner Letters Online
Souith African writer, Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) is one of the world’s great feminist writers and social theorists, with her novels including The Story of an African Farm and From Man to Man, her allegories including Dreams and Dream Life and Real Life, and her political treatises including Woman and Labour. She also wrote over 5500 exceptionally important letters, the earliest dating from 1871, the last written just a few days before her death in December 1920.
Schreiner’s letters – all of them, full and complete just as she wrote them – will be published in January 2012 and will be freely available world-wide in a fully-searchable electronic edition. The Olive Schreiner Letters Online will provide a new, detailed, and unique electronic resource for feminist research, women’s studies and gender studies.
The Olive Schreiner Letters Online will be hosted at http://www.oliveschreiner.org/ from January 2012 on and will provide fully searchable transcriptions of Schreiner’s 5500+ extant letters located in archives across Europe, the US and South Africa, as well as a detailed editorial interpretive apparatus around these. The Olive Schreiner Letters Project has been funded by the UK’s ESRC (RES-062-23-1286) and the letters are being published by the renowned electronic research resources publisher HRIOnline. The research team includes Liz Stanley, Helen Dampier, Andrea Salter, David Shepherd, Michael Meredith and Kiera Chapman.
Schreiner’s letters are of exceptional interest because containing her unfolding thinking about her writing and publishing activities, and also her developing analysis and social theorising around the crucially important topics that preoccupied her, including: metropolitan feminism and socialism, prostitution and its analysis, imperialism and the ‘scramble for Africa’, war & peace, changing understandings of ‘race’ and capital, intersectional theorising around women, gender and ‘race’, the South African War (1899-1902) & its concentration camps & women’s relief organisations, governance & federation, international women's franchise campaigns, labour issues, international feminist networks, the Great War, diplomacy & pacifism, and much more as well.
Information about the Schreiner Letters Project is available at: http://www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk/. Many Project publications are available to download and there is also information about Schreiner and her core concerns, including downloadable copies of her major publications.
If you would like to hear more about Olive Schreiner Letters Online and receive information about activities and events from across the globe concerning letters and other forms of life representation more broadly, please subscribe to the Lives & Letters mailing list by emailing oliveschreiner@yahoo.co.uk Alternatively, you can self-subscribe to the mailing list by sending a blank email to sympa@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk with the following in the subject: sub lives-and-letters.
Schreiner’s letters – all of them, full and complete just as she wrote them – will be published in January 2012 and will be freely available world-wide in a fully-searchable electronic edition. The Olive Schreiner Letters Online will provide a new, detailed, and unique electronic resource for feminist research, women’s studies and gender studies.
The Olive Schreiner Letters Online will be hosted at http://www.oliveschreiner.org/ from January 2012 on and will provide fully searchable transcriptions of Schreiner’s 5500+ extant letters located in archives across Europe, the US and South Africa, as well as a detailed editorial interpretive apparatus around these. The Olive Schreiner Letters Project has been funded by the UK’s ESRC (RES-062-23-1286) and the letters are being published by the renowned electronic research resources publisher HRIOnline. The research team includes Liz Stanley, Helen Dampier, Andrea Salter, David Shepherd, Michael Meredith and Kiera Chapman.
Schreiner’s letters are of exceptional interest because containing her unfolding thinking about her writing and publishing activities, and also her developing analysis and social theorising around the crucially important topics that preoccupied her, including: metropolitan feminism and socialism, prostitution and its analysis, imperialism and the ‘scramble for Africa’, war & peace, changing understandings of ‘race’ and capital, intersectional theorising around women, gender and ‘race’, the South African War (1899-1902) & its concentration camps & women’s relief organisations, governance & federation, international women's franchise campaigns, labour issues, international feminist networks, the Great War, diplomacy & pacifism, and much more as well.
Information about the Schreiner Letters Project is available at: http://www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk/. Many Project publications are available to download and there is also information about Schreiner and her core concerns, including downloadable copies of her major publications.
If you would like to hear more about Olive Schreiner Letters Online and receive information about activities and events from across the globe concerning letters and other forms of life representation more broadly, please subscribe to the Lives & Letters mailing list by emailing oliveschreiner@yahoo.co.uk Alternatively, you can self-subscribe to the mailing list by sending a blank email to sympa@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk with the following in the subject: sub lives-and-letters.
Friday, 30 September 2011
New journal issue of Journal of Southern African Studies with focus on Histories and Legacies of Punishment in Southern Africa
Newly available (in both print and electronic access) and with a special focus on the history and legacies of punishment is the following journal issue:
Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, 01 Sep 2011
This new issue contains the following articles:
"Introduction: Histories and Legacies of Punishment in Southern Africa", Jocelyn Alexander & Gary Kynoch
"Defining Crime through Punishment: Sexual Assault in the Eastern Cape, c.1835–1900", Elizabeth Thornberry
"Law, Violence and Penal Reform: State Responses to Crime and Disorder in Colonial Malawi, c.1900–1959", Stacey Hynd
"Repression and Migration: Forced Labour Exile of Mozambicans to São Tomé, 1948–1955", Zachary Kagan-Guthrie
"Of Compounds and Cellblocks: The Foundations of Violence in Johannesburg, 1890s–1950s",
Gary Kynoch
"Punishment, Race and ‘The Raw Native’: Settler Society and Kenya's Flogging Scandals, 1895–1930",
David M. Anderson
"Containing the ‘Wandering Native’: Racial Jurisdiction and the Liberal Politics of Prison Reform in 1940s South Africa", Kelly Gillespie
"The Limits of Penal Reform: Punishing Children and Young Offenders in South Africa and Nigeria (1930s to 1960)", Laurent Fourchard
"In the Shadow of Mau Mau: Detainees and Detention Camps during Nyasaland's State of Emergency", John McCracken
"Nationalism and Self-government in Rhodesian Detention: Gonakudzingwa, 1964–1974", Jocelyn Alexander
"Discipline and Punishment in ZANLA: 1964–1979", Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
"State Discourse on Internal Security and the Politics of Punishment in Post-Independence Mozambique (1975–1983)", Benedito Luís Machava
"‘Entering the Red Sands’: The Corporality of Punishment and Imprisonment in Chimoio, Mozambique", Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
"Deviance, Punishment and Logics of Subjectification during Apartheid: Insane, Political and Common-law Prisoners in a South African Gaol", Natacha Filippi
Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, 01 Sep 2011
This new issue contains the following articles:
"Introduction: Histories and Legacies of Punishment in Southern Africa", Jocelyn Alexander & Gary Kynoch
"Defining Crime through Punishment: Sexual Assault in the Eastern Cape, c.1835–1900", Elizabeth Thornberry
"Law, Violence and Penal Reform: State Responses to Crime and Disorder in Colonial Malawi, c.1900–1959", Stacey Hynd
"Repression and Migration: Forced Labour Exile of Mozambicans to São Tomé, 1948–1955", Zachary Kagan-Guthrie
"Of Compounds and Cellblocks: The Foundations of Violence in Johannesburg, 1890s–1950s",
Gary Kynoch
"Punishment, Race and ‘The Raw Native’: Settler Society and Kenya's Flogging Scandals, 1895–1930",
David M. Anderson
"Containing the ‘Wandering Native’: Racial Jurisdiction and the Liberal Politics of Prison Reform in 1940s South Africa", Kelly Gillespie
"The Limits of Penal Reform: Punishing Children and Young Offenders in South Africa and Nigeria (1930s to 1960)", Laurent Fourchard
"In the Shadow of Mau Mau: Detainees and Detention Camps during Nyasaland's State of Emergency", John McCracken
"Nationalism and Self-government in Rhodesian Detention: Gonakudzingwa, 1964–1974", Jocelyn Alexander
"Discipline and Punishment in ZANLA: 1964–1979", Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
"State Discourse on Internal Security and the Politics of Punishment in Post-Independence Mozambique (1975–1983)", Benedito Luís Machava
"‘Entering the Red Sands’: The Corporality of Punishment and Imprisonment in Chimoio, Mozambique", Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
"Deviance, Punishment and Logics of Subjectification during Apartheid: Insane, Political and Common-law Prisoners in a South African Gaol", Natacha Filippi
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